Facebook 50 MILLION accounts comprised in major data breach (sep 29, 2018 – may 5, 2020)

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6219697/Facebook-reveals-security-incident-affecting-50-mln-users.html


Facebook has discovered a massive security breach affecting 50 million user accounts - including those of Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.

The social media giant said attackers exploited the site's 'View As' feature, which lets people see what their profiles look like to other users.

The unknown attackers took advantage of a feature in the code called 'Access Tokens,' to take over people's accounts, potentially giving hackers access to private messages, photos and posts - although Facebook said there was no evidence that had been done.

The hackers also tried to harvest people's private information, including name, sex and hometown, from Facebook's systems.

Facebook said it doesn't yet know if information from the affected accounts has been misused or accessed, and is working with the FBI to conduct further investigations.

However, Mark Zuckerberg assured users that passwords and credit card information was not accessed.

As a result of the breach, the firm logged roughly 90 million people out of their accounts earlier today as a security measure.

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